Fouad Siniora

Fouad Siniora (22 November 1943-) was Prime Minister of Lebanon from 18 July 2005 to 9 November 2009, succeeding Najib Mikati and preceding Saad Hariri.

Biography
Fouad Siniora was born on 22 November 1943 in Sidon, Lebanon to a Sunni Muslim family, and he graduated from the American University of Beirut. Originally an employee of Citibank and a manager of Rafik Hariri's business empire, Siniora served as Minister of Finance under Hariri when he became Prime Minister after the Lebanese Civil War. In 2005, after Hariri was assassinated and after Emile Lahoud became President of Lebanon, Siniora was chosen by Lahoud as Prime Minister. His government was the first to include Hezbollah members, but he later declared that unauthorized rocket launches towards Israel would constitute high treason due to giving Israel more propaganda. He also sobbed when he described the effects of the 2006 July War on the Lebanese people in Rome, and on 21 May 2008 he was one of the men involved in the Doha Agreement, which ended a year-and-a-half-long political crisis between Hezbollah and the non-Shi'ite political parties. He left office in 2009.